Definitions for howl

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Spelling: [houl]

IPA: /haʊl/

Howl is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in howl (hlow).

Definitions for howl

noun

1. the cry of a dog, wolf, etc.
2. a cry or wail, as of pain, rage, or protest.
3. a sound like wailing:
4. a loud, scornful laugh or yell.
5. something that causes a laugh or a scornful yell, as a joke or funny or embarrassing situation.

verb (used with object)

1. to utter with howls:
2. to drive or force by howls (often followed by down):

verb (used without object)

1. to utter a loud, prolonged, mournful cry, as that of a dog or wolf.
2. to utter a similar cry in distress, pain, rage, etc.; wail.
3. to make a sound like an animal howling:
4. Informal. to go on a spree; enjoy oneself without restraint.

Origin of howl

1300-50; Middle English hulen, houlen (v.); cognate with Dutch huilen, Low German hülen, German heulen, Danish hyle; akin to Old Norse ȳla

Examples for howl

It was enough to make any one howl with horror, for it was all so hideous.

With characters like Allen Ginsberg [in howl], my love for him started with his work when I was a teenager.

So he let them howl as much as they liked, but never troubled his head about them.

Peter slammed its door to, crushing them so that he loosed his grip, with a howl.

But really, all this fanfare seems more like a howl for Washington's attention and a ploy for PR.

"You must be a howl," commented the captain, making for the seductive locker.

Without Biddy, I should wish but to howl at the sunset, as a dog bays the moon.

Conservatives on Twitter howl derisively at these polls as if their purveyors are offering alchemical cures for venereal disease.

Wouldn't even pay attention to the packs of feral Iraqi hounds that yap and howl all through the night when people walk by.

That whole subplot seemed to me like a reference to the Ginsberg poem “howl” and the idea of man rebelling against the status quo.